Am I a bad reader?

I was reading this interview about Trinity at Comic Book Resources, which is pretty interesting on the whole, and this bit stuck out:

My view has always been that it's worth looking the reviews and seeing what people have to say. Some of the people who love it will be wrong because they love it but miss the point of what they are seeing. Some of the people who hate it will be wrong because they are blind to it and angry about something else entirely. But there will be people who both like and dislike it for reasons that are solid and well founded...

And it got me thinking: am I one of those people who likes things for the wrong reasons?

Also: who decides what are the right and wrong reasons?

(I'm being deliberately obtuse here. I'm pretty sure that "wrong" as used in the interview refers to folks who literally don't understand what's going on. But bear with me for a few.)

I've dropped Trinity, at least for the time being. I don't think it's a bad book but it just doesn't appeal to me enough to justify the expense. If I had money to burn I'd probably keep getting it.

Now, I liked Countdown. I didn't get on board with it immediately, but once I did I was never tempted to drop it. (Actually, that's one of the reasons I signed up for Trinity in the first place--didn't want to miss anything I expected to like that much. Since I don't, I'm dropping it. Might pick it up again later. Who can tell about these things?) I was eventually a bit disappointed with the payoff, but I still enjoyed it as a whole and don't regret buying it.

What I'm getting at here, in part, is that I'm one who reads books for the characters. That's one of the main draws for me. If it's also a good, well-written story, great. If it's an exceptional story, awesome. Subtle characterizations, complex motivations, unexpected plot twists? I appreciate them. I like them. But on their own they don't sell a comic to me. What sells a comic to me is a certain personal investment in the characters.

When did I start getting Countdown? When GL Kyle Rayner showed up. Of course I then discovered that, hey, there are other interesting people in this, and I picked up the back issues and bought all the others and never looked back. Turned out that one of my favorite storylines was Piper/Trickster, but I'd never have known about it unless and until I actually had the comic in my hands, and that didn't happen until the presence of Kyle brought me in.

Is that a case of reading a comic for the "wrong" reasons? It's certainly a case of putting something other than simple comic quality at the top of my list of reasons for reading it.